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Shemsi en Tehuti · (#53 (**permalink**))

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Originally Posted by Happiness

well - Shemsi u should know me well enough by now to know that in my world the divide is clear as day.

Still dont get this whole discussion.

I just get reactive when people post things referencing what they think should be more "African" - be it fashion, architecture, beauty, life-style etc.... My question is please define what you mean by "African this or African that" because really there is alot of stereotyping that goes on.

Some Africans look like Miss USA and some Africans look like that model from Sudan (her name escapes me right now). so who truly has the "African" look and what the heck does all that mean anyway??

Shemsi - we are what we are....and if you believe the one dimensional nature of being "African", acting "African", dressing "African", living "African" and looking "African" ..... then you are as much a product of the mind control that you think you have escaped.

What Miss USA has is a look - a beauty pageant look. Any of us black woman here would have that same look with a weave and make up no matter where we came from.

I hear what you are saying, and I certainly agree with you. There is no "African look". At the same time, you won't see a single reference to looking African in any post that I've made in this thread. The contention I am putting forward is would she win a "beauty pageant" if it was administered by conscious African people, in all of our diversity, without narrowing the view of beauty on the European standard.

Seriously, I need not any lecture on the nonconformity of the African phenotype. I have spent probably several threads in my early days at BNV to attest to this fact you feel the need to bring up here.